Boxing: High Fell duo win through

Gateshead boxers Ant Brown and Andi Crossman from the High Fell club both won through to the counties round of the National Novices Championships to be held at the Park Hotel, Tynemouth on November 20.

Gateshead boxers Ant Brown and Andi Crossman from the High Fell club both won through to the counties round of the National Novices Championships to be held at the Park Hotel, Tynemouth on November 20.

Brown took an unanimous points decision from P Walton (Phil Thomas School of Boxing) in the Tyne, Wear and Tees Division of the championship in Middlesbrough, while Crossman dug deep after suffering a bout of flu to take a majority decision over W Scott (Aycliffe).